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Breyer Capital Austin?—?End of Year Update

Austin Startup

Breyer Capital Austin?—?End End of Year Update After officially announcing Breyer Capital Austin earlier this year after two years of active planning and due diligence, I received a humbling number of gracious emails and messages from Austin-based leaders, entrepreneurs, executives, and investors.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #13: To be stealthy or not?

Austin Startup

We recently invested in Osano , which is led by the very talented Arlo Gilbert and is currently in stealth mode. By contrast, MOON is going to launch soon and is not in stealth mode at all. We went with the stealth mode approach prior to our launch, as I’ll reflect on at the bottom of this lesson. I could waste no time.

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Putting yourself out there! (part 2)

Austin Startup

I was already Texas-bound to give my personal take on global trends in digital kid’s media, so when the Summit organisers opened applications for an integrated pitch event I filled out the form with a determined “pick me” focus. Sprung in stealth mode! Startup Land, Austin-style Originally published at Wantu. BBQ Brisket — yum!

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Hypergiant Adds Tech Industry Veterans to its Staff

SiliconHills

Hypergiant has announced that Brian Beard and Gary Gattis will join as Global Chief Strategy and Legal Officer and General Manager in Residence respectively. Hypergiant, which came out of stealth mode last year, has launched two new divisions, Hypergiant Galactic […].

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Austin: Airbnb “Super City” and Hotspot For Emerging Boutique STR Purveyors

Austin Startup

The Guild’s home page Austin is known for a number of things?—?temperate Last year Austin managed to edge out Venice and Florence in terms of 2018 Airbnb revenues, and it nearly beat Berlin as well. which is headquartered in Austin, and had 97 keys under management at the end of 2018?—?is It also generated an impressive $2.6

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: PurePlus

Austin Startup

In fact, the food we waste is responsible for roughly 8% of global emissions, so wasting less food presents a key opportunity to address climate change. PurePlus is disrupting candy with stealth nutrition. All SXSW Pitch events take place at the Hilton Austin Downtown. Global social impact campaigns focused on the environment.

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FreshTech Friday: Three Austin Deals that Caught My Eye at Southby

Austin Startup

You’ve got to hand it to the mice in the ATX promotion machine…they are eating their multi-vitamins these days and spinning the wheels of Austin goodness extra fast in the major media. Take Time magazine’s recent coverage of Austin. That’s where Jon Kolko and his Austin Center for Design come in ( [link] ).

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